. William Shakespere : a biography. Defoncc of Poesy. 143 WILLIAM SHAKSPERE : ■ And sorrowing I to see the summer flowers,The lively green, the lusty leas forlorn,The sturdy trees so shattt-rd with the shower*The fields so fade that flourishd so beforn;It taught me well all earthly things be bomTo die the death, for nought long time may last *,The summers beauty yields to winters blast. Then looking ujiward to the heavens leams,With nights stars thick-powdered everywhere,Which erst so glistend with the golden streamsThat cheerful Phoeous spread down from his sphere,Beholding dark oppressing da
. William Shakespere : a biography. Defoncc of Poesy. 143 WILLIAM SHAKSPERE : ■ And sorrowing I to see the summer flowers,The lively green, the lusty leas forlorn,The sturdy trees so shattt-rd with the shower*The fields so fade that flourishd so beforn;It taught me well all earthly things be bomTo die the death, for nought long time may last *,The summers beauty yields to winters blast. Then looking ujiward to the heavens leams,With nights stars thick-powdered everywhere,Which erst so glistend with the golden streamsThat cheerful Phoeous spread down from his sphere,Beholding dark oppressing day so near :The sudden sight reduced to my mindThe sundry changes that in earth we find. That musing on this worldly wealth in thought, Which comes and goes more faster than we see The flickering flame that with the fire is wrought. My busy mind presented unto me Such fall of peers as in this realm had be : That oft I wishd some would their woes descrive, To waru the rest whom fortune left [Tliomas Satkville.] A BTOGHAPHV, NOTE ON SIDNEYS DEFENCE OF POESY. It has scarcely, we think, been noticed that the justly-celebrated work of Sir Philiii Sidney formsan important ]iart of the controversj, not only against the Stage, but against Poetry and Music, thatappears to have commenced in England a little pi-evious to 1580. Gosson, as we have seen, attacksthe Stage, not only for its especial alnises, but because it partakes of the general infamy of to this declaimer, it is the whole practice of poets, either with fables to show theirabuses, or with plain terms to unfold their miscliief, discover their shame, discredit themselves,and disperse their poison throughout the world. Gosson dedicated his School of Abuse toSidney; and Spenser, in one of his letters to Gabriel Harvey, shows how Sidney received thecompliment:— New books I hear of none; but only of one that, writing a certain book calledThe School of Abuse, and dedicating it to Master Sidney, was for hi
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